Oscar Wilde: elusive ego, extraordinary wit and enduring genius

It is as difficult to move through a day without hearing at least some reference to Wilde – be it a quote from his work or a paraphrase – as it is of Shakespeare or Yeats. Wilde endures as do the respective works of an Elizabethan dramatist an

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The men behind Home Rule to hang in Leinster House

The paintings to be hung are a portrait of Isaac Butt (the National Gallery of Ireland permitted a reproduction to be made of a charcoal portrait by John Yeats); a portrait of John Redmond (the Hugh Lane Gallery allowed a reproduction t